vair68robert
Responses from vair68robert
| Thiel Owners I have installed the Clarity Purity 800v - S 1uf cap in the mid range circuit and am very impressed , this leaves me with wanting to upgrade a 1.5uf cap on the negative side of the tweeter circuit to a Clarity Purity 250v , one that I already upgr... | |
| A previous discussion included a statement about crossover components. Good Morning I am in the almost finial act of upgrading my crossovers , while I don't consider my Thiel CS2.7 speakers as " high " end they are of high quality build except for the quality of the crossover parts . The " made for Thiel " 1uf byp... | |
| Thiel Owners @duramax747 The Mundorf 100uf caps are electrolytics , I should have the Purity caps by the end of week and installed by the weekend , I'll post pictures on the virtual system page . @anzen Purity caps are available at Parts Connexion in ... | |
| Thiel Owners This was from Tom 5/25/2018 "The 2.7 midrange is fed through a 400uF electrolytic cap, albeit with a PP and styrene bypass in parallel. The 3.7 uses a bank of 75uF polypropylene caps with a styrene bypass. Multiple smaller PP caps provide faster... | |
| Thiel Owners And a Happy Father's Day to you jafant . It was 6 years ago that I purchased a pair of CS2.7 speakers for a father's day gift to myself , today's gift to me is a pair of Clarity Purity 1uf 800v capacitors . | |
| Thiel Owners 1500 pairs of 2.7s ! My serial #s are 329 & 330 , If I remember correctly prof have #'s slightly higher and those have been the highest #s I've seen on this forum . I wonder where the rest of the owners are ? One major thing I've discove... | |
| Favorite Guitar Solo Jimmy Page White Summer " In The Light 1969 " or 1980 box set | |
| Thiel Owners Thank You jafant It's been a long journey with trails and errors of trying to use different damping materials , wiring gauge size and configuration and scariest of all stripping the threaded inserts out of the MDF ( don't use a drill ) . But upg... | |
| Thiel Owners Thanks Tom Yes they were , I replaced the woofer and radiator with brass and the coaxial with reinforced nylon , as well as the crossover boards with brass because they too were magnetic . Only the screws holding the speaker terminals were non-ma... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom "It seems that later (after TT) products migrated to a very thin foam interface that essentially collapses under mechanical load while forming an air seal." I did not notice any kind of seal when removing the speakers from the cabinet , (may... | |
| Increasing a Low output MM mdrone I am using a Tavish Design Adagio with a Soundsmith Carmen II cartridge with an output voltage of 2.12mv , the MM ( MI ) gain is 44db . I was unsure if the gain was enough when I switched from a Grado with an output of 5mv since I am g... | |
| Thiel Owners anzen I looked at images of the 2.4 crossovers and it looks like they used Jantzen Superior Z caps which measure 17 x 43 mm for the 1uf 100v cap , The Clarity Purity measures 18 x 45 mm for the 1uf 250v . Maybe the 400v will fit but it doesn't l... | |
| Modifying Crossovers ervikingo If you have room move the crossovers as far away from the woofer as possible . | |
| Newly discovered Beth Hart | |
| Thiel Owners Purity Capacitors " greater clarity in reproduction of sound as well as improved spatial separation of individual instruments and vocals. " I copied this from the CC web site as I have been trying to think of how to describe the addition of a 1... |